uninstall cygwin

[Dave]

Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, f g wrote:
> 
>>I would like to uninstall a Cygwin installation under
>>Windows XP: to do this I follow the instruction in
> 
> You'll also want to delete the registry key, as outlined in the above
> instructions.  Oh, and deleting the directory won't remove any shortcuts
> created by the Cygwin installation packages (like those in the Start Menu
> or on the desktop, or the associations created by the "chere" package), so
> it's better to use setup.exe to uninstall everything first, *then* delete
> the directory and the registry key.

Just to clarify, Igor's procedure won't remove the chere associations 
that he mentioned.

If you don't recognise "chere", then you don't have any associations to 
remove. If someone else set things up for you, run the following command 
(before uninstalling cygwin) to identify any associations:

chere -l

To remove the associations, run

chere -u -s <shell>

for each shell, where <shell> is the shell you installed 
(cmd/ash/bash/tcsh/pdksh/zsh). That's from memory (and I don't uninstall 
that often:), see man chere for accurate information.

Regards,

Dave.
chere maintainer.

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